.htaccess

I suppose your host could limit whether you could use a .htaccess file or not. But I don’t see why they would. I suppose that would be worth finding out..? The rewrite should really do the trick, that’s what allows you to use these virtual directories.. :-/

Dreamhost wouldn’t limit HTAccess (though I have to admit – I’m having a problem setting up another .htaccess file to limit hotlinking on another directory). I really wouldn’t be surprised if it’s somethign with mod-rewrite, but I’m pretty sure other WP users are on Dreamhost and not having problems.
Maybe I just suck? :p

You don’t suck, lol, believe me, I had trouble getting this to work at first myself- this feature is not plug-n-play. ?? Look into the mod-rewrite stuff, let me know what you find out.

yeah, I’m checkign with dreamhost’s forums — unfortunately (and strangely seeing they are charging now) most people are looking for MT information.
I will keep you posted.

* shudders * MT was fun until they started the whole ‘you pay us or die’ thing… Mkay, I’ll check back regularly.

I still use MT on one of my blogs (www.boltsmag.com ) but I also have an install of WP on that site that I will fix up / reconfigure once I get all these bugs out of my private blog…

just FYI — someone did a total walkthrough for installing wordpress on my hosting company.
There is no mention of this problem however —
https://www.wombatnation.com/misc/installWordPressDreamHost.html
Maybe I should try a total re-install? I mean, maybe I botched up somewhere by trying to change the structure after importing entries and what not?

blah, I modified the .htaccess file today and the entire site stopped working. CSS wouldn’t be read in the WP directory, you couldn’t use the admin control panel, etc.
Had to remove the .htaccess file all together to get thing sworking again.

Humm… You need that .htaccess file in order to get the clean URIs working. I find it really strange that it’s not working. You file doesn’t contain any weird header information right? In other words, it was plain text?

Why not do this: install WP again in a new directory, just call it test or something and try to get the .htaccess file working there.

sounds like a plan.

“You appear to already have WordPress installed. If you would like to reinstall please clear your old database files first.”
This is so frustrating.
I have a few hundred blog entries from MT that haven’t been converted in search engines to WP because the virtual addresses don’t work…. So I’m still getting comments on MT blog entries instead of WP Entries. It’s so FRUSTRATING.

and yes, it was plain text in the file… it was a notepad file saved as .htaccess

Hmm, I’m sorry it isn’t working… That’s very frustrating. ??

I’m trying to work with the .htaccess file again and nothing in my wp directory is availible for some reason (css files, admin control panel, etc).
I’ve been trying various CHMOD codes in order to get around this but something is really screwed up.
The code that is in the .htaccess file is:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index.php/archives/category/(.*)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /wp/wp-feed.php?category_name=$1&feed=$2 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^index.php/archives/category/?(.*) /index.php?category_name=$1 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^index.php/archives/author/(.*)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /wp/wp-feed.php?author_name=$1&feed=$2 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^index.php/archives/author/?(.*) /index.php?author_name=$1 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^index.php/archives/?([0-9]{4})?/?([0-9]{1,2})?/?([0-9]{1,2})?/?([_0-9a-z-]+)?/? ([0-9]+)?/?$ /index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&day=$3&name=$4&page=$5 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^index.php/archives/?([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]{1,2})/([_0-9a-z-]+)/ /(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /wp/wp-feed.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&day=$3&name=$4&feed=$5 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^index.php/archives/?([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]{1,2})/([_0-9a-z-]+)/ /trackback/?$ /wp/wp-trackback.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&day=$3&name=$4 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^feed/?([_0-9a-z-]+)?/?$ /wp/wp-feed.php?feed=$1 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^comments/feed/?([_0-9a-z-]+)?/?$ /wp/wp-feed.php?feed=$1&withcomments=1 [QSA]
The way I am accessing the file is through notepad after finding the file on my HD through Dreamweaver MX 04